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Join the FSF and friends Friday, June 22nd, from 12:00
p.m. to 3 p.m. EDT (16:00 to 19:00 UTC) to help improve the Free
Software Directory this week by helping to promote it.

The Free Software Directory is an essential catalog of free
software online, composed and maintained by countless volunteers
dedicated to the promotion of software that respects your personal
liberty. Tens of thousands of people visit the Directory every month
to discover free software and explore the information about version
control, documentation, and licensing. Adding and maintaining entries
to the Directory is crucial work to give people access to free
software which has only free dependencies and runs on a free OS. All
of this information is also exported in machine-readable formats,
making it a valuable source of data for the study of trends in free
software. The Directory is powered by MediaWiki, the same software
used by Wikipedia.

Every Friday at 12:00-15:00 EDT (16:00 to 19:00 UTC), volunteers meet
on IRC in the #fsf channel on irc.freenode.org to add new entries, update existing
ones, and talk about free software together (to see the meeting start
time in your time zone, run this in GNU bash: date
--date='TZ="America/New_York" 12:00 this Fri'). As with any group
composed of volunteers, the informal Directory team has people who
come and go, and right now, it could really use some fresh new members
to kick our efforts into high gear. The Directory just passed 16,000
entries this year, and as far as we're concerned, there's no limit to
how high it should go!

Examples of ways you can help include updating information about
existing entries, proposing new entries, or reviewing new entries
submitted by others to make sure they meet the Directory's criteria.

No matter how you participate, improving the Free Software Directory
is an easy, nuts-and-bolts way to make a contribution to the free
software movement, bringing us a tinier step every day to a truly free
society. We look forward to seeing you on IRC!